107 jobs found in Portsmouth

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK's largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime and migration.   As a QA Tester, your main responsibilities will be: Support a team in developing and testing service functions Develop and implement new processes Bolster the operational management team in developing and improving the live service by creating visibility, communication channels and lines of escalation for 'the' live service (issues, incidents, MI, risks, comms) To support in the creation and testing of agile development of cross cutting processes like incident management, change management, comms. To champion an assurance function to deliver operational...

Government Commercial Agency (GCA) is the largest public procurement organisation in the UK. As a trading fund and executive agency of the Cabinet Office, we implement procurement policy on behalf of the government. We use the collective buying power of our customers and our commercial expertise to help public sector organisations achieve value for money and provide great outcomes for taxpayers. About the role: We are seeking an experienced Senior Service Designer to support a customer experience improvement programme focused on enhancing the services and processes that support public sector buyers and suppliers. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will help redesign and improve internal services, processes and user journeys. You will focus on understanding user needs, mapping end to end journeys, developing service blueprints and working closely with stakeholders to deliver practical, user centred improvements within a Salesforce based environment....

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK's largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime and migration.   As a QA Tester, your main responsibilities will be: Support a team in developing and testing service functions Develop and implement new processes Bolster the operational management team in developing and improving the live service by creating visibility, communication channels and lines of escalation for 'the' live service (issues, incidents, MI, risks, comms) To support in the creation and testing of agile development of cross cutting processes like incident management, change management, comms. To champion an assurance function to deliver operational...

Technology Project Manager – Oracle Retail Releases (Contract) Day Rate: Competitive Inside IR35 Location: Reading (Hybrid - 2 days per week) Duration: Initial 6 Months (with extension possible)   We are seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to lead the delivery of key workstreams within a large‑scale Oracle Retail Releases Programme . This role will oversee end‑to‑end delivery across a complex technology portfolio, working closely with Product Teams, Solution Architects, and our delivery partners to ensure successful, high‑quality outcomes.   The Role Oracle Retail sits at the heart of our IT systems landscape. You will manage the full lifecycle of a number of concurrent IT change projects within the Oracle Retail Releases portfolio, ensuring delivery against defined scope, timelines, budgets and quality standards. You will be responsible for aligning various stakeholders and teams across the business, product teams,...

3-6 month contract | Reading / Hybrid   We're looking for a smart, energetic and hands-on person to join us as we launch and test a brand new AI product, BuildEngine.   BuildEngine is designed to help engineering teams use AI to build software faster, while giving businesses the governance, security and control they need.   This isn't a narrow role. You'll get involved across the whole product.   You could be: Testing new features and finding bugs Helping shape how the product works Working with our engineers on smaller technical tasks Testing AI agents and development workflows Helping prepare customer demos Joining customer calls and showing BuildEngine in action Gathering feedback and helping turn it into product improvements Travelling to tradeshows Trying new AI models, tools and ideas   We're not looking for someone with 10 years of experience.   We're looking for someone...

Customer Data Business Analyst Customer Engagement Initiative (Digital Transformation Programme) Location: Reading (Hybrid – Tuesdays are anchor days) Duration: Initial 3 Months Contract Day Rate: Competitive (Inside IR35)   We're looking for an experienced Customer Data Business Analyst to join a major Customer Engagement Initiative within a large-scale Digital Transformation Programme. This is a pivotal role focused on building the customer data foundations that will enable future loyalty, promotions, personalisation, customer engagement, and marketing capabilities . You'll play a key role in defining and shaping new customer data products, ensuring the business has the data, insights, and structures needed to support its long-term customer strategy. This is a hands-on role, working closely with Product Owners, Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Data Architects, and Data Engineers to define customer data requirements...

Lead Solution Architect - Ecommerce Expansion Duration: Initial 6 Months Location: Reading (Hybrid) Job Type: Inside IR35 Day Rate Contract   We're looking for an experienced Lead Solution Architect to play a critical role in shaping and delivering Primark's global ecommerce expansion strategy.   This is an exciting opportunity to provide architectural leadership across large-scale digital commerce initiatives, helping to drive growth across new markets, fulfilment models, customer journeys and operational capabilities. You will work closely with business and technology stakeholders to design secure, scalable and resilient solutions that support Primark's ambitious ecommerce roadmap.   What you'll be doing Leading solution architecture across ecommerce storefront, product, pricing, checkout, payments, order management, fulfilment, delivery and returns capabilities Defining solution vision, architecture roadmaps and...

Lead Solution Architect - Advanced CRM & Customer Data Duration: Initial 6 Months Location: Reading or Dublin (Hybrid basis) Job Type: Inside IR35 Day Rate   We're looking for an experienced Lead Solution Architect to provide architectural leadership across customer engagement, CRM and customer data initiatives, helping to shape the future of Primark's digital customer experience landscape.   This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in defining architecture strategy across customer identity, customer data, personalisation, loyalty and marketing technology platforms. You'll work closely with business and technology stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure and customer-centric solutions that support Primark's ambitious growth agenda.   What you'll be doing Leading end-to-end solution architecture across CRM, customer data, personalisation and customer engagement capabilities Defining architecture...

Workday Foundations Project Manager Duration: Initial 6 Months Location: Dublin or Reading (Hybrid working) Contract Type: Day Rate (Inside IR35)   Role summary End to end project management of the Workday Foundations remediation project, spanning up to 30 workstreams delivered with our systems integration partner across 17 global markets. Foundations sits within a wider Workday programme and HR transformation portfolio, and its outputs will have direct inputs into other projects and programmes in a complex portfolio of change.   Key responsibilities Own the integrated Foundations plan across all in-scope workstreams, including critical path, sequencing and the dependency map into market and SKU implementation projects Manage the full workstream lifecycle from planning and discovery through design, recommendation and remediation delivery Act as the primary client-side counterpart to the systems integration partner's...

Business Analyst – Payroll Transformation (Global Programme) Duration: Initial 6 Months Location: Reading or Dublin (hybrid) Contract Type: Day Rate (Inside IR35 if UK Based)   We’re hiring a Business Analyst to support a major global Payroll Transformation programme. This role is ideal for someone experienced in defining payroll requirements, implementing new payroll platforms/providers, and with proven involvement in parallel payroll testing .   You’ll work with global/local payroll teams, vendors, and technical partners to ensure requirements are clear, processes are mapped, and the solution meets business and compliance needs. The role reports into the Programme Lead.   Key Responsibilities Requirements capture - Document statutory, regulatory, functional, operational, and integration needs. Process mapping - Build detailed as‑is and to‑be payroll process flows, identifying gaps and...

Payroll Data Analyst (Global Programme) Location: Reading or Dublin (hybrid) Duration: Initial 6 Months Contract Type: Day Rate (Inside IR35 if UK based)   About the Role We’re hiring a Payroll Data Analyst to support payroll transformation, system implementations, and operational improvement across a complex, multi‑country organisation. You’ll analyse, validate, cleanse, and reconcile payroll data while working closely with Payroll, HR, Finance, Technology, and external providers to ensure accuracy, integrity, and compliance.   Key Responsibilities Payroll data analysis - Analyse, validate, and reconcile data across multiple systems. Data cleansing & migration - Support mapping, transformation, QA, and migration activities. Transformation support - Contribute to payroll system implementations and process improvements. Reporting & insights - Produce dashboards, reports, and actionable...

Payroll Data Lead (Global Programme) Location: Reading or Dublin (hybrid) Duration: Initial 6 Months Contract Type: Day Rate (Inside IR35 if UK based)   About the Role We’re recruiting a Payroll Data Lead to manage the end‑to‑end migration from an incumbent payroll provider to a new provider. You’ll lead the payroll data workstream, ensuring accurate extraction, mapping, cleansing, validation, and migration across multiple systems including Workday, UKG, and the new payroll platform.   Key Responsibilities Data migration leadership — Own the payroll data migration strategy, plans, timelines, and delivery. Data analysis & cleansing — Perform detailed validation, reconciliation, and quality checks. Data mapping — Map data between legacy systems, UKG, Workday, and the new provider. Migration cycles — Execute mock migrations, testing cycles, and final cutover. Issue...

SuccessFactors/Employee Central Time Migration Programme Job Title : SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking & Time Off Consultant Location: UK - Hybrid Position Type: Contract - Outside IR35 Experience Level: 5-9 years Working Pattern: Remote/Hybrid, with availability during UK business hours Role Overview We are seeking an experienced SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking and Time Off Consultant to design and deliver the time and attendance solution on a large-scale SuccessFactors and Employee Central Payroll (ECP) transformation. The programme migrates a complex UK public sector payroll and HR estate from Legacy SAP ECC/SAP HCM into the SAP SuccessFactors landscape, covering approximately 65,000 employees across 17 payroll areas, multiple public sector pension schemes (LGPS, Teachers, NHS), a significant multiple-employment population, and more than 60 integration interfaces. This role is based in the UK on a remote/hybrid contract basis,...

Role: Senior Applied AI Engineer (Private Sector Contractor) Rate: £700–£900 per day, dependent on experience Location: Hybrid: 2 days a week on site at Harwell, Oxfordshire; remainder remote (UK-based) Engagement: Contract, outside IR35: initial [6]-month term with strong likelihood of extension Start: Immediate Start   A note from the Founders   Oxford Dynamics is at an inflection point. We build frontier AI for environments where the cost of a wrong decision is high: defence and national security, critical infrastructure, and commercial organisations making high-stakes decisions on complex data. We are growing fast, and the constraint on how fast is no longer ideas or opportunity. It is whether the systems we ship are good enough for the people who stake decisions on them. That is where you come in. We need engineers who can build the systems this mission depends on, and build them to a standard that holds...

Role: Senior Applied AI Engineer (Private Sector Contractor) Rate: £700–£900 per day, dependent on experience Location: Hybrid: 2 days a week on site at Harwell, Oxfordshire; remainder remote (UK-based) Engagement: Contract, outside IR35: initial [6]-month term with strong likelihood of extension Start: Immediate Start   A note from the Founders   Oxford Dynamics is at an inflection point. We build frontier AI for environments where the cost of a wrong decision is high: defence and national security, critical infrastructure, and commercial organisations making high-stakes decisions on complex data. We are growing fast, and the constraint on how fast is no longer ideas or opportunity. It is whether the systems we ship are good enough for the people who stake decisions on them. That is where you come in. We need engineers who can build the systems this mission depends on, and build them to a standard that holds...

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK.   UKRI invests £8 billion of taxpayers' money each year into research and innovation and the people who make it happen. They work across a huge range of fields - from biodiversity conservation to quantum computing, and from space telescopes to innovative health care. They give everyone the opportunity to contribute and to benefit, bringing together people and organisations nationally and globally to create, develop and deploy new ideas and technologies.   Job Purpose:   UKRI is delivering Shaping Our Future, a major organisational transformation portfolio designed to modernise ways of working, improve organisational effectiveness and enable UKRI to deliver greater value for the UK research and innovation system.   We are seeking an experienced Senior Planner to provide strategic planning leadership across the portfolio....

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK.   UKRI invests £8 billion of taxpayers' money each year into research and innovation and the people who make it happen. They work across a huge range of fields - from biodiversity conservation to quantum computing, and from space telescopes to innovative health care. They give everyone the opportunity to contribute and to benefit, bringing together people and organisations nationally and globally to create, develop and deploy new ideas and technologies.   Job Purpose:   UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is delivering Shaping Our Future, a significant organisational transformation portfolio that will modernise services, processes, technology, operating models and ways of working across the organisation.   The Head of Change Management is a senior leadership role responsible for developing and leading the portfolio-wide...

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK.   UKRI invests £8 billion of taxpayers' money each year into research and innovation and the people who make it happen. They work across a huge range of fields - from biodiversity conservation to quantum computing, and from space telescopes to innovative health care. They give everyone the opportunity to contribute and to benefit, bringing together people and organisations nationally and globally to create, develop and deploy new ideas and technologies.   As a Programme Manager , your main responsibilities will be to:   Lead and coordinate delivery of the programme on behalf of the SRO Develop, maintain and manage the integrated programme plan, milestones and critical path. Establish and maintain programme governance and control frameworks. Lead programme reporting, including risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and...

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK.   The Portfolio PMO Lead is a senior leadership role responsible for establishing, leading and continuously improving the portfolio management office (PMO) function across the Shaping Our Future portfolio. Acting as a trusted advisor to the Portfolio Delivery Director and senior leadership team, the postholder will ensure robust portfolio governance, planning, reporting, assurance, resource management, financial oversight and benefits management are embedded across the portfolio.   Aligned to the Government Project Delivery Capability Framework (PDCF) Portfolio Manager G6 role, the Portfolio PMO Lead will provide strategic oversight of portfolio performance, enabling informed decision-making and ensuring delivery remains aligned with UKRI 's strategic objectives and available resources. The role will lead the development of portfolio management...

IT Service Recovery Consultant – 8 week Contract   We are looking for an experienced IT Service Recovery & Runbook Consultant to support a consultancy engagement focused on improving the ability of a large organisation to restore and recover the IT components underpinning its critical services. This is a technical discovery and consultancy assignment, rather than a traditional Business Continuity or Operational Resilience role. The initial engagement will assess the organisation's existing recovery documentation, establish a standardised approach to technical runbooks, identify the IT components requiring runbooks and determine the work required for a subsequent implementation programme.   The assignment Working closely with platform engineering teams, technical SMEs and IT component owners, you will: Define a standard service restoration runbook template, including the minimum technical processes and information required to...